I've found it. I've got the answer to the problems of relationships in the world. Maybe not all, but a most particular kind. You know, the pesky annoying, should vs want, wonderful romance? The answer that would make Dr. Laura Schlessinger sing with enthusiasm because it will keep us out of the pitfalls of hurting people because we fell in love with the "wrong person" or at the "wrong time" and brought kids into it. Helen Fisher reminds us anti depressants take away sex drive. "Everybody knows that," she says. And we are prescribing them for long durations of time, increasingly. What they also do is "kill your ability to fall in love and stay in love. When you drive up serotonin in the brain, which is what anti depressants do, you are suppressing the dopamine circuits. The dopamine circuits are the circuits associated with elation, obsessive thinking and feelings of romantic love. And again, when you kill the sex drive you no longer have orgasms, and when you no longer have orgasms you no longer have the rush of oxytocin and vasopressin associated with attachment." Winning?
All we need to do to avoid the pain and inconvenience of love is to not have it. And, there's a pill for that. No more lover's quarrels. No more adultery or bad timing. We can all become stoic and indifferent. Our children can see us always being practical and going through the motions of life dependably. Without the tyrannical waves of falling in and out of love, or creating divorces and infidelities. The traditional families' magic pill is here! We can raise children who feel more stable, less tossed by the currents of an adult's romantic love interests, or hell, even their own. Don't forget the side benefits of not being depressed, or feeling any other real human drive or emotion fully for that matter.
And in taking all of that away, do you realize, that's exactly what we don't need...
"the enemy of love is not hate, it's indifference"
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 11:21AM 
